They enter Bobby's house and before they can get an answer, there's an undead looking lady setting the dinner table. In a sweet perky way she says she didn't realize he was bringing company. She rushes off the get more plates. More freaked out Sam and Dean looks. I swear, I never tire of those. Dean naturally asks who that is. Why it's Bobby's wife Karen of course! His new wife? No, that would be the dead wife. Dean takes this surprisingly well. Just wait!



Dean is having an orgasm over pie. He tells "Mrs. Singer" it's incredible. Coming from an aficionado like Dean, that's a huge complement. She thanks him. Sam gives him a bitchface, like pies made from zombies are evil or something. "What, it is," Dean says. Bobby asks Karen if she could give them a minute, so Sam and Dean give her a big smile as she disappears into the kitchen. Their faces drop, pies are pushed aside and now it's time for the berating.   I noticed Sam pushes away an uneaten pie. I've already floated the theory out there that Sam is so miserable because all he eats is salads. Turning down excellent zombie pie isn't doing him any favors either. 





Alright, back to the plot. Dean starts with "Are you crazy, what the Hell?" He's upset that Bobby lied to them and "girl zombie in there making cupcakes in your kitchen." Bobby gets offended, not appreciating the insult on his wife. Sam jumps in now, stating that whatever that thing is in there, it is not his wife. Bobby questions why Sam knows that, pointing out he's not an idiot. "My dead wife shows up at my doorstep I'm not going to test her every way I ever learned?" He doesn't know what she is. She's got no scars, no wounds, no reactions to salt, silver, or holy water. Dean asks how she just pulled herself out of her coffin and Bobby claims she didn't. He cremated her.   Whoa, Death can do that? That changes things. 

Sam says that's impossible. Hello, Sam, since when has anything in your world been "impossible?" Poor choice of words on your part. I would have used "implausible." He asks if he buried her ashes. Yep, at the cemetery. That's where everyone rose from. 15 or 20 to be precise. Bobby gives Sam the list. I'm assuming that's because Sam is the official list handler.   Bobby lists some of the people that come back, including the sheriff's son. Oh, so that's why she was pro zombie. Sam clarifies there were no omens. Well, maybe the lightning storms. Dean throws his hands up in the air in disgust and Sam gives a bitchface. Don't get these boys angry Bobby. You might get that reaction twice. 

Dean wants to know what else. Oh, this is a big deal he forgot to mention. Bobby pulls out the "little known translation" of Revelation. He reads a passage about Death. Oh what the hey, I'll transcribe, since Sam and Dean get all bothered by these words. "And through the fire stood before me a pale horse and he that sat a top him carried a scythe, and I saw how since he had risen they too shall rise. And from him and through him." One very irritated Dean confirms Death is behind this. Sam even goes for more clarification. "Death, death as in grim reaper death." Come on Sam, you were there when he was risen and actually conscious for it. 





Dean puts his hand over his face. "Awesome. Another horseman. Must be Thursday." Ha! That joke alone is funny given the show, but I was told it was also a Buffy reference. So that makes it cooler. Sam asks the golden question of the hour. Why would Death raise fifteen people in a "Podunk" town like Sioux Falls? Gee Sam, think really hard about that one. Bobby doesn't know. Dean goes out on a limb and theorizes if Death is involved, it's not good. Sam reads the bible for more clues. Dean comes right out with it. "You know what we have to do here." 

Poor Bobby is so heartbroken over the idea already and Sam is giving the puppy dog look of sympathy to prove it! Bobby says she doesn't remember anything, like being possessed or being dead. Dean tries to talk sense but Bobby doesn't like the condescending tone. This part chokes me up. "Just listen, okay? She hums when she cooks. She always used to hum when she cooked. Tone deaf as all hell but I never thought I would hear it again." 



Sam and Dean share those looks of worry and Bobby pleads to Sam's common sense. Read Revelation. It doesn't say anything about the dead rising being bad. "Maybe it's the one good thing that comes out of this whole bloody mess." Dean pulls the "what would you do if you were us" card, but he's not you Dean! Your dead wife isn't in the kitchen. He knows what he'd do, but he begs them with the trademark Sam Winchester "please" to leave her be. 

Sam and Dean must have agreed, for they're sitting in the local diner trying to decide what to do. Dean doesn't want to leave Bobby alone with "the bride of Frankenstein" but Sam mentions the head shot might not be wise in front of Bobby. Dean's going to watch Bobby, Sam gets to do the leg work. Dean leans against the Impala in the junk yard, watching Bobby's windowless house, and here's the shot of him doing so (for you Sablegreen!). This next shot is a fun trick from a new director. The camera closes in on Dean, then without stopping pans left and whoa! Karen is there. It freaks Dean out too.

 

She asks if she scared him and with a scared expression Dean says no. "There's nothing scary about you at all."  Oh, I love Dean when he uses statements of double meaning. She tries to get him to come in for lunch. Dean is good. She goes for the more pie angle. Dean isn't sure Bobby wants him inside. "Guess it'll have to be our secret, huh?" She likes him. She leads, Dean follows. Back to Sam, who gets to spy on zombies. He goes to the sheriff's house, where she and her husband are reading a book to their dead son. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Oh wait"¦

Back to Dean whose eating some luscious looking cherry pie. Yum, I want some. Pies are everywhere. Bobby is sleeping in the other room, so Karen closes the kitchen doors. Dean guesses that she likes pies. Ever since she came back, she can't stop baking. Dean wonders when she has time to sleep. She doesn't, which gives credence to the saying, "I'll sleep when I'm dead." She cuts to the chase. She knows Dean doesn't trust him. That's why he's there. She knows who he is and that Bobby's not the same scrap dealer she married. He hunts things, and she's a thing. This chick is really sharp, especially for being undead. It's refreshing to see a zombie with a brain.



Dean assumes she knows that Sam and him would never let anything happen to Bobby. She knows he's like a father to him, but she won't let anything happen either. She confesses she remembers everything. How she died, the demon taking over her body, everything. She accepts Bobby had no choice but to do what he did. Dean wonders why she doesn't tell him. "I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never been in love. He's my husband, my job is to bring him peace, not pain. Dean kind of gets it, but still has that "funny feeling look."